XXVI. ROSA CEH: RU BUS. 313 
It 1s easily distinguished from all the other brambles in British gardens, by its 
nearly erect, strong, smooth, dark mahogany-coloured shoots, and by its very 
long pinnate leaves. The flowers are small, and the petals are of a bright 
reddish purple, and shorter than the sepals. The fruit is of a blackish pur- 
ple, of the middle size ; depressedly spherical, and covered with a fine bloom. 
The grains are fleshy, with a sweet subacid taste. This species throws up 
suckers sparingly; but its magnificent shoots arch over after they get to 
6 or 8 feet in height, and grow branching and flowering on every side, till they 
reach the ground, when their extreme points strike root, and form new plants. 
Horticultural Society’s Garden. 
x 4, R. occipenta Lis L. The Western, or American, Bramble. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 706. : Dec. Prod., 2. p. 558. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 531. 
Synonymes. R. virginianus Hort.; R. ide us friictu nigro Drill. 
Engravings. Sloane Jam., t. 213. f.1.; Dill. Hort. Elt., t. 247. f. 319. ; and our jig. 552. 
Spec. Char., §c. The whole plant is pretty glabrous. 
Stems round and whitish. Prickles recurved. Leaves 
of the barren branches pinnate ; of the fertile branches 
trifoliolate. Leaflets ovate, incisely serrated, whitely 
tomentose beneath. Stipules very narrow, and bristle- 
like. Flowers in umbels. Peduncle prickled. Sepals 
lanceolate-linear, tomentosc, longer than the petals, 
which are obovately wedge-shaped, two-lobed, and , % 
spreading. Fruit black, acid, of the form of that of § 
R. ide‘us. Carpels numerous, rather glabrous ; be- 
coming, by drying, rugged with little hollows. (Dec. 
Prod.) A sub-erect shrub. Canada and the West 
Indies. Height 4 ft. to 6 ft. Introduced in 1696. WW , 
Flowers white ; May and June. Fruit black ; ripe in 550 evoselaentnlist 
August. Horticultural Society's Garden. 
2 5. R. 1£us L. The Mount Ida Bramble, or common Raspberry. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 706.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 558. 
‘ . frambeesia: Lam. Fl. Fr., 3. p.135.; Framboisier, Fr. ; gemeine Brombeere, Ger. 
** The Raspis is called in Greeke BaTos Ipaia ; in Latin, Rubus Idea, of the mountaine Ida, on 
which it groweth ; in English, Raspis, Framboise, and Hinde-berry.” (Johns. Ger., p. 1274.) 
Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 2442.; and our jig. 533. 
Spec. Char., §c. Villose. Stem round, bearing slender recurved prickles. 
Leaves pinnate; those of the fertile stems of 3 leaflets, those of the sterile 
stems of 5, rather palmatcly disposed. Leaflets ovate, incisely serrated, 
whitely tomentose beneath. Stipules very narrow and bristle-like. Flowers 
in a corymbose panicle. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, whitely tomentose, ending 
in © point. Petals obovate-wedge-shaped, entire, conniving, shorter than 
the calyx. Carpels numerous, tomentose. (Dec. Prod.) An upright shrub, 
with a creeping root and biennial stems. Europe, and, probably, Asia, 
Africa, and America, Found in every part of Great Britain, and in Ireland, 
in the agricultural and subalpine regions, in woods, and in moist wastes. 
Height 4 ft. to 8 ft. Flowers white; May, June, and July. Fruit red; 
ripe in July, August, and September. 
Varieties. 
& R. i. 2 microphijllus Wallr. Sched. p. 256. — Leaves all of 3 leaflets. 
Stem suffruticose ; dwarfer and more bushy than the species. (Dec. 
Prod.) 
Garden Varieties, There are varieties with red fruit, yellow fruit, and 
white fruit ; and one which bears twice in the year. 
The fruit of the species, in a wild state, is crimson, amd consists of nume- 
rous juicy grains, beset with the permanent styles, and highly fragrant ; with a 
very deliciously sweet, and yet slightly acid flavour, when eaten. Improved 
varieties of it have long been in cultivation in gardens, for the fruit, which is 
delightfully fragrant, and grateful to the palate in itself, and is used in na- 
